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Re:Changing my relationship with GitHub Copilot by konschubert on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @02:02AM (#37304000)
Copilot is like a kinda stupid, but rally eager and fast Junior intern.

If you let it guide your code structure or your architecture, you will end up with a mess very quickly.

But if you use it as autocomplete on Steroids, it can really speed you up.

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Re:Changing my relationship with GitHub Copilot by ALittleLight on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @02:16AM (#37304061)
I've been doing design iteration and first pass with ChatGPT-4, then me and Copilot take it from there to nearly done, and then I'll often just copy and paste back to ChatGPT to ask for review and thoughts.

Most of the benefits come from taking the time to write out a design or description for the function I'm writing, but sometimes ChatGPT makes useful contributions.

What an age we live in. I figure I'll be just about adapted to these tools by the time GPT-5 comes out.

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